The HORRIFIC Execution Of Princess Elisabeth Of Hesse - The Tsarina's Sister

throughout the Soviet Union there are a number of purges and executions which kept the population in check Stalin when he was in power would organize a Great Purge and would even before the second world war damaged the Red Army severely after he ordered the executions of a number of generals but before this there was great Bloodshed in Russia in the time of the Civil War as a Bolsheviks fought for power the Tsar Sarina and their children of the former ruling family had been slaughtered in new cuttering Borg but there was another Royal who was slaughtered by the Bolsheviks in 1918 and she was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and also the older sister of the last Russian Empress the Sarina Alexandra she was known for her beauty and charity amongst the poor however in her final days she suffered greatly join us today as we look at the horrific execution of Princess Elizabeth of hassar and remember to support our Channel please make sure to subscribe born on the 1st of November 1864 Elizabeth was the second child of Ludwig IV the Grand Duke of hessar and Princess Alice who herself was a daughter of Queen Victoria she was linked to many royal families across Europe and she was raised modestly by her family she did not enjoy the luxuries of servants and instead was told to keep her own house tiny and the children were assigned a number of chores Elizabeth was taken on trips by her mother to visit wounded soldiers during the austro Prussian war and she was fluent in English and this was her first language however tragedy would strike when she was just 12 as diphtheria caused chaos within the Royal household and this killed Elizabeth's younger sister Marie and also her mother which caused a great upset distress Elizabeth was saved if she was staying with her grandmother at the time but she believed the loss of her mother and sister was like a horrible dream that she would never wake up from Elizabeth was a catch for many princes across Europe and she was considered one of the most beautiful women in Europe her cousin stated that one could never take one side off her that her beauty almost brought you to tears with this she was considered a woman who could help to forge alliances with different countries and royal families across the world her cousin Prince Wilhelm of Prussia as a young man fell in love with her despite being older he said to his mother he would marry her one day he wrote many Love Letters to her but Elizabeth rejected his proposal many of us tried to marry Elizabeth but she rejected them and the future Frederick II tried and Queen Victoria said he was good and steady as well as safe but Elizabeth declined to marry him and Victoria found this shocking however the Grand Duke of Russia would be successful and Sergey the son of Empress Maria Alexander offner of Russia found himself attracted to Elizabeth he was a serious and devout man with Elizabeth and Sergey bonded over the losses of their parents he proposed to her in 1883 and she did accept which shocked Queen Victoria arrangements for the wedding went ahead and this took place on the 15th of June 1884 and the chapel of The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg she became known as Elizabeth and it was here where the last tsar of Russia Nicholas II would meet his future wife Elizabeth's younger sister Alex people in Russia were greatly fond of Elizabeth and it was said everyone fell in love with her from the moment she came to Russia and the couple lived in a palace in Saint Petersburg her husband became the governor general of Moscow and the couple never had children of their own because Elizabeth was fond of her nieces and nephews and she had huge parties for the children on their estate they fostered sergey's niece and nephew but Elizabeth was a key part in the marriage of the tsar and Sarina Nicholas II and her sister Alex she encouraged Nicholas to pursue Alex and Elizabeth would convince her sister to convert to his religion and she would later accept the proposal but on the 17th of February 1905 her husband Sergey was assassinated in the Kremlin by Ivan calierev Elizabeth was heartbroken and she said that God would punish us severely as the Grand Duke kicked out twenty thousand Jews from Moscow he would forcibly remove them using soldiers they were kicked out without any notice she believed the assassination was Penance for this and Elizabeth let herself fall weakly into an armchair her eyes dry with the same peculiar fixity she looked straight into space and said nothing she refused to cry but could not shake her grief a Russian historian said Elizabeth spent all the days before the burial in the ceaseless prayer on her husband's Tombstone she wrote father released some they know not what they do she understood the words of the gospel's heart and soul and on the eve of the funeral she demanded to be taken to the prison while cariev was being held brought into his cell she asked why did you kill my husband I killed Sergey alexandrovich because he was a weapon of tyranny I was taking revenge for the people do not listen to your pride repent and I will beg The Sovereign to give you your life I will ask him for you I myself have already forgiven you on the eve of the Revolution she had already found a way out forgiveness forgive through the impossible pain and blood and thereby stop it then at the beginning this bloody whale by her example poor Ella appealed to society calling upon the people to live in the Christian Faith No replied calierev I do not repent I must die for my deed and I will my death will be more useful to my cause than Sergey alexandrovich's death calientev was sentenced to death I am pleased with your sentence he told the judges I hope you will carry it out just as openly and publicly as I carried out the sentence of the socialist revolutionary party learn to look the advancing Revolution writing the face following the death of her husband Elizabeth wore morning clothes she sold off large collections of jewels and luxuries including her wedding ring she tried to appease God by diverting her life to charity and she opened up a covenant and became its abbess she then opened further chapels in a hospital and she worked with her nuns to help the poor and sick the princess was now helping people inside of the slums of Moscow which would act as an advisor to her sister the Sarina she warned against influence of Rasputin and she may have been aware that he was going to be murdered but princess Elizabeth herself would go the same way as Assad Sarina and she was brutally slaughtered in 1918 Vladimir Lenin ordered Elizabeth's arrest which was an exile to cuttering Berg just like the Tsar was she was joined by the Grand Duke Sergey michaelovich and a number of princes and workers for them they were then taken to alpayevsk in may 1918. they were kept in a house on the outskirts of the town they were kept under heavy guard and for the revolutionaries that these people represented the monarchy on the 17th of July 1918 at midday a checker officer Bolshevik workers came to their place of imprisonment they robbed the prisoners of their money and they then said they would be moved later in the evening to a factory compound the Red Army guards left and they were replaced by the checkers Secret Service officers in the evening the prisoners were woken up and were taken by cards on a road leaning to the Village of silica and they were then taken to an abandoned mine pit they were stopped and then thrown down off the cart princess Elizabeth and the others were beaten Padley and the Checker then stood Elizabeth on the edge of the mine shaft which was around 20 meters deep she was bloodied and had been beaten badly and the pious and harmless woman was then thrown into the pit first she may have been dead or severely injured when she hit the bottom but the others were thrown down the pit too to make sure they were killed the Checker officers then threw grenades down the shaft only one victim died from the grenades and the rest were killed by the beating and the fall of the Checker executioners did say that Elizabeth and the others survived the fall into the mine which is why grenade was thrown at them but following the explosion he said Elizabeth and The Others sung a hymn from down the shaft a second grenade was then allegedly thrown but the singing continued but then wood was thrown down the shaft and this was ignited and set on fire burning all of those including Elizabeth at the bottom on the 8th of October 1918 white army officers found the remains of Elizabeth and the others her body was said was in good condition despite being there for three months and it was shown instead of fire that she died from starvation or her injuries a postmortem showed Elizabeth died from her injuries sustained in the fall from the mine but before she died she banished the head of a prince with her nun swim pool the body of Elizabeth was then taken to Jerusalem and was later essay which was made a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church princess Elizabeth of Hessa and by Ryan was a princess who did great things for many people following the death of her husband she publicly forgave her husband's murderer and also then became a Nun by turning her back on the Imperial cause to help others she was no threats but for Lenin she was a symbol of the monarchy and for this she was to be executed in a horrific manner but she never deserved the Fate she received thanks for watching to support our Channel please make sure to subscribe and once again thank you so much for watching

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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 25 2023